Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability

Horst Ruthrof FAHA, Ph.D. (1969) Rhodes University, is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and English at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He has published over a hundred articles and seven books in literary theory, semiotics, and the philosophy of language.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsOriginal PublicationsIntroduction: from Literary Theory to the Critique of Language PhilosophyPart 1Signs in Literary TheoryIntroduction to Part 11 Reading the Signs of Literary Works2 Signs in Translation3 Motivated Signifieds: the Fourth Critique4 The Role of Imaginability in Literary SemanticsPart 2Intentionality in Peircean SemioticsIntroduction to Part 25 How to Get the Body Back into the Linguistic Sign6 Intentionality as Sufficient Semiosis7 Signs of Resemblance: Hypoiconicity as IntentionalityPart 3Locke, Kant, Heidegger, Einstein and FreudIntroduction to Part 38 The Logos of Modernity: Vernunftspaltung9 From Kant’s Monogram to Conceptual Blending10 Locke: Linguistic Meaning as Indirectly Public11 Missing Signs: Heidegger’s Forgetting of Perception12 Signs of Irrationality: Einstein and Freud on Why War?Part 4Imaginable Signs in the Phenomenology of LanguageIntroduction to Part 413 Speculations on the Origins of Linguistic Signification14 Knowing a Language: What Sort of Knowing Is It?15 Perception or Imaginability: Which Has Primacy in Language?16 On Sign Compulsion in Natural LanguageConclusionBibliographyIndex